can't contact newserver news.gmain.org
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Thu Feb 10 22:33:25 UTC 2005
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:24:39PM -0800, Richard E Miles wrote:
> I was trying to contact the news.gmain.org newsserver but was unable. I
> typed slrn -nntp -h news.gmain.org --create. It said:
> Reading startup file /etc/slrn.rc.
> Using newsrc file /home/rmiles/.jnewsrc for server news.gmain.org.
> Connecting to host news.gmain.org ...Failed to resolve news.gmain.org
> slrn fatal error:
> Failed to initialize server.
>
> How do I use this news service?
> I also did a ping news.gmain.org and got unknown address.
I think its 'gmane', not 'gmain'
Dave
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